Our Penguin Young Reader division has launched season 2 of the We Are YA podcast!
This season is filled with short episodes with different YA authors talking about how they’re doing during the time of COVID-19, as well as what they’re working on, and what they’re reading and watching! Be sure to share this with your teen & tween students so they can get messages directly from their favorite authors!
We’ve linked our current favorite episode (it changes every day!), with Ruta Sepetys, author of The Fountains of Silence, Salt to the Sea, Out of the Easy, and Between Shades of Gray. From there, you can find the rest of the season, including the most recent episodes with Tochi Onyebuchi, Marie Lu, Danielle Vega, and Laurie Halse Anderson.
We’re all born playful. But when we grow up, we learn to suppress this critical, hardwired instinct and our lives become ruled by “getting things done.” As world-famous designer Cas Holman explains, this disconnection from our playful selves is hazardous to everything from our emotional wellbeing to our ability to problem solve and innovate. The
The New York Public Library has announced its Best Books of 2025. Curated by NYPL librarians and staff, these are their top annual recommendations for kids, teens, and adults, including nonfiction, fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and books in Spanish. All of the books are available in the Library’s catalog. Below is a selection of Penguin
